OBSIDIAN PRE-COLUMBIAN KNIFE

It is true the saying 'hang out with dull and be dull, hang out with smart and become smart'. Yesterday we spent a wonderful day with two very smart people one of the and archeologist. We were having a pic nic in a recreational club and they naturally started finding pre-columbian remains! As M says if you look you can find them almost anywhere and everywhere.

We found the piece of a pre-columbian knife done in obsidian a very common material used by all the different tribes in America. You can tell it was a knife by the double parallel chisel on the sides (pic 1) a cut that make a thin cutting edge (pic 2). On the top, you can see the flat place where they hit the stone to separate it from the bigger piece (pic 3) and on the back the ripple effect left on the stone from the impact (pic 4).

PIC 1


PIC 2


PIC 3



PIC 4